Jacob Larsen notes on Spacing a possible change in the political winds blowing around the Turcot project. Also there’s a planned demo tomorrow starting at 1:30 pm at Lionel-Groulx to continue the struggle for a better solution for that part of the city.
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The top donors at the Jewish General Hospital have already received their flu shots and the Gazette seems uncertain whether to consider this a scandal or not.
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Mayor Tremblay is now ex officio also mayor of Ville-Marie borough; a long piece on Louise Harel on the days before the election; another longish piece on Richard Bergeron over the same few days.
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The abduction panic in the West Island last week was a fake. The stories were made up and questions are now being asked how to deal with this kind of thing, but nobody mentions that in our society practically the most important thing, the pinnacle of existence, is to get on TV and become famous: how can you fault a young teenager for noticing that some other kid got a shortcut to TV by claiming to have nearly been grabbed, and to copy the effect for themselves?
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Longtime local venue Le Medley is to close at the end of this year, probably to become condos, and leaving the Ligue nationale d’improvisation looking for new digs.
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The man who carried out a brutal attack on five people in Snowdon metro in 2005 has been given a sentence of two years after his original sentence in the community was overturned as too light. One of his victims suffers from permanent brain damage and disfigurement.
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Carpenter Claude Larouche has pleaded not guilty in the murder of Natasha Cournoyer. Her employment with Corrections Canada had at first suggested some motive for her murder, but there was no connection between her and Larouche or with her job. La Presse digs into Larouche’s history, including a chilling tale of his attempt to kidnap a seven-year-old girl in 2003 and an almost as chilling account of the night of the murder, during which Larouche nearly grabbed a jogger before turning his attention to the woman walking toward her car in the Place Laval parking lot. That he seemed like a regular guy in daily life is no reassurance.